Charting the Range of Black Politics

by Michael Mitchell

Book Overview

The election of 2008 brought onto the national stage complexitiesarising when the member of a minority group assumes power over national political institutions. It also underlined the limits placed on that power by the double accountability such a figure faces. The question posed in this volume of the NPSR is: Might the ascendancy of President Obama lead to a deracialization of American politics or its opposite?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01IRO0S6G
• ISBN13: 9781412849395
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"